We'll be alone forever

[futurafrika]

“In patriarchal culture, all males learn a role that restricts and confines. When race and class enter the picture, along with patriarchy, then black males endure the worst impositions of gendered masculine patriarchal identity.”

— bell hooks

[surqrised]

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”

— Saul Bass

[machetelanding]

Saul Bass’s storyboards for the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)

[esqueletosgays]

VERTIGO (1958)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cinematography: Robert Burks

[metamorphesque]

musings on touch

margaret atwood, natalie diaz, ocean vuong, susan sontag, anne carson, marya hornbacher, mary oliver

[fkartwigs]

FKA twigs - AFTERGLOW

[heavydosesofvalium]

[metamorphesque]

The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King, J.R.R Tolkien

[historicl]

Nathanael Sichel (detail)

[the-cricket-chirps]

René Gruau

Advertising illustration for Miss Dior (Collection of Parfums)

Christian Dior, Paris, 1949

[sesiondemadrugada]

René Gruau.

[generalknot]

Back in school, my illustration teacher often referred to Gruau’s work as the gold standard- along with Antonio Lopez and Kenneth Paul Block. Amazing artists.

[mournfulroses]

Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled "Heart Test with an Echo Chamber," featured in Paper Boat: Selected Poems

[nemfrog]

Golden sun. Cover art.

Patience Worth. 1916.

Internet Archive

[poemwav]

by Courtney Kampa (1987-2022) | from "War of the Roses"

[sesiondemadrugada]

Herbert List.

[gaypast]

Enoch Marton photographed by Bob Mizer, 1960s

[vintage-sweden]

Women selling funeral wreaths by a graveyard, 1890s, Sweden.